By Adeola Ogunlade
As President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the world’s single largest refinery, Dangote Refinery yesterday in Lagos, The Planter of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Grace of Mercy Prayer Mountain, Adamimogo, Worldwide, and Prophet Sam Olu Alo has appealed to the government, philanthropist and corporate organisations to establish more industries that will help in tackling unemployment and encourage youth entrepreneurship.
Alo said this in an interview with journalists at the just concluded Exodus (Ayajo Majemu) of CAC , Grace of Mercy Prayer Mountain, held at the Adamimogo Jesus City, Lekki-Epe, Expressway, Lagos.
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Alo said that the commissioning of the Dangote Refinery is a welcome development and its capacity to create tens of thousands of jobs should be a wake-up call for the private sector to embark on more projects that will help reduce the growing unemployment among the youth.
He noted that creating job opportunities, especially for young Nigerians would be the remedy to put an end to criminality and other vices among the youth.
Alo stated that government at all levels and corporate organisations should confront unemployment aggressively in order to discourage youths from the temptation of resorting to fraudulent means to sustain themselves.
“If we have 10 of Dangote’s in Nigeria who will cooperate with the incoming administration and create establishments that will help in reducing unemployment, we will experience peace and calmness”, he said.
Alo stressed that government alone cannot solve the problem of unemployment among the youths in Nigeria, hence private sector should arise and support the government by investing in industries that can create jobs for the people.
He opined that the developed countries are benefiting heavily from private sector players who are intentional in investing in improving lives, strengthening communities, and stimulating societal growth and sustainable development.
He, however, was optimistic that if Tinubu’s administration would key into his belief in him by Buhari that he would certainly encourage and support entrepreneurs by creating an enabling environment for investment and businesses to thrive, those youth that fled the country because they would not like to steal or join bad gangs are certainly coming back when the situation improves in the country.
Alo, also called on Tinubu that as he prepares to tackle the economy of the nation, the first problem he would want him to fix is the unity of the country.
“The country, Nigeria, today can be likened to a wall with many cracks which calls for the wisdom of Tinubu to establish unity and peace in the country
“The second thing is that Tinubu should drum it in the ears of every Nigerian and every section of the country that Nigeria is and remain a secular state which in the circumstance does not call for religious war.
“Tinubu should know that for Nigeria to progress and be in the comity of Nations, she should remain an entity with absolute peace, devoid of religious war” he advised.
He added that Nigerians and the leaders know those that are causing problems in the country and strangers who are the mixed multitude with no love for the sovereignty of the country which is the reason for insecurity and cracks in the wall of the nation. They and their atrocities should be succinctly tackled for the country to move forward.
